OLD COLONIAL HOUSES OF THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE:

viii, 16 pages of text, xxxiv leaves of plates: illustrations, frontispiece, plans. Quarto. Pictorial cloth, some wear to spine, otherwise a clean, tight copy.  Plate xxviii bound in as frontispiece.

Trotter (1863-1961) lived at the Cape from 1896-1898. She explored the Peninsula on a bicycle, sketching and recording what she saw. Her drawings, writings and archival research awakened in others an appreciation of Cape Colonial architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and the need for its preservation. Herbert Baker's chapter on the origins of Cape architecture indicates, as became more apparent with genealogical and wider research, that whilst Dutch influence was important, German and Scandinavian influences were also brought to bear on designing buildings at the Cape.